the table is great for drink glasses, snacks, and remote controls while watching TV.

Now we'll go upstairs and visit C's Room.

This is our 4 year old daughter, C's room.

She has access to her books,

toys are stored in the lower cabinets with doors,

a small play kitchen on the right wall,

and a small (kid-size) table and chairs

that she uses for coloring and having tea parties with her stuffed animals.

The table is an awful Disney Princess table set we got at Kmart

a few years ago, I was going to repaint it but then I put the cute table cloth

on it and it's MUCH better (and I didn't have to paint!)

You can see the corner of her "sticker board" collection hanging on her door.

It's a piece of foam core hanging from a ribbon that she is

allowed to stick on any stickers she gets from school, doctor's appointments, etc.

C's book nook.

This is her little reading corner in her room.

She enjoys sitting in her little chair and flipping through books.

We select 4-5 books to read together every night at bedtime as well.

The doll house book case came from Target a few years ago,

square bins are Closet Maid also form Target,

the tiny toile arm chair was a first birthday gift to my oldest daughter 8 years ago.

Close-up of the shelves in my daughter's room.

The bins are nice for paperback scholastic books.

They aren't in a specific order but we do keep some books together,

for example all of the Maisy Books, Curious George, Eric Carle, etc. are together.

I'll put other groupings together too: halloween books in one stack, winter-theme, etc.

She does flip through them easily because they're all facing the same direction

it's easier to see the covers than looking at spines on a shelf since she's not reading yet.

C's books are arranged by color.

Here is E's room.

There are built in book cases in E's room (age almost 9).

Some of my art books are in here because we don't have anywhere else to store them

(her room used to be our guest room)

I added the bins for her to store stuffed animals, coloring books,

knitting supplies, and various papers.

The square bins are Closet Maid from Target/Walmart.

The "dotty" plastic bins were from Target's Dollar bin section last spring.

That's our homemade Fairy House on the floor in front of the bookcase.

E's Desk.

This is a desk we rescued out of our neighbor's trash a few years ago.

We gave it a makeover with white and purple spray paint.

The mini shelf with the little bins is "Closet Maid" from Target.

She sits here to draw her fashion sketches, fold Origami,

and draw cartoons in the morning and after school.

And...Yes that is her terrarium in the corner.

Her pet garden snail "Tiny" lives in it, she's had him for 4 years. : )

This is on the other wall in E's room.

Books and a few of her favorite collectibles on display.

It's her own space to arrange as she wishes.

She is very tidy and likes everything in it's proper place (just like her mom!)

E's tall bookcase in her room.

One of my older daughter's bookcases in her room.

She keeps most of her "reference" library on these shelves.

It's her favorite book "genre".

Her American Girl dolls and doll clothes are stored in the lower cabinet.

Let's go back downstairs to the Kitchen.

Kid dishes in our kitchen.

This is where I keep bowls and cups at "kid level"

so the girls can get their own cups of water and snacks.

This is in that little drawer under the ovens

that is too small to use for much of anything.

They use glass dishes and cups too,

but they're in a higher up cabinet that I get down for them.

This is just for their own snacks and drinks for the girls and their friends

to grab when they're playing or out in the yard.

It's an odd assortment of dishes from Ikea and Target.

This wall in our kitchen table eating area is where we display the kid's school art projects.

I used old frames and bulletin board cork material to make a rotating gallery space.

They are backed with foam core and

I use thumbtacks or push pins to hold up the art work.

Here is our Art Studio.

When we moved into this house we decided to use

our very large "formal" living room as our art studio space.

The large cabinets along the wall are Ikea Kitchen Islands,

they have nice deep drawers and shelves for art supplies.

The little green table and stools are also from Ikea

- the girls do most of their projects here.

I re-arrange this space depending on what kind of project we're working on.

I have a big fold up picnic style table I set up in the middle of the room

for art classes and camps.

Watercolor Basket.

I was inspired by Mariah and another classmate to move our watercolors to a basket

so the girls have everything they need whenever they want to paint.

I included two tablets of watercolor paper,

a small roll of paper towels, paints, brushes, a glass jar (for water),

a small and extra fine tip sharpie, a sharpened pencil

and some water-soluble watercolor crayons and pencils.

The girls loved having easy access to the new watercolor basket

and jumped right in to creating with it!

Re-purposed Diaper Caddy = Portable Writing and Art Center

I converted our old diaper caddy from Pottery Barn
to hold markers, crayons, paper, etc.
Portable and easy for the girls to tote around wherever they need it.
Also great for homework time at the kitchen table.

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